Agenda 5/23/13 & Minutes 5/16/14

Post date: Jun 4, 2014 9:53:25 PM

Agenda 5/23

• 1. Approval of minutes

  2. Reports

  3. Nominations

  4. Plan M

  5. Council forum

  6. Jcomm report

  7. Notes & New business

Council Minutes 5/16/14

• 1. Approval of minutes

  2. Reports

     • (Mod): Welcome new members!

     • (Treas): Still working on club budgets but what is being requested is more than we have to give.

• • (DSB): The new members from the Class of 2018 are Johanna Bandler, Sarah Bozuwa, Aisling Kelly, Harrison Silber, and Collin Rozzi (alt.)

  • (Admin): Motion to allocate $20 to the admin committee for staff of the year.

• 1. Student Life survey report:

Things to be most concerned about:

• • Amount of sleep students are getting.

  • Amount of homework being given (60% of students felt that the amount of school work given affects their sleep even after managing their time well).

  • Hope to improve the relationship between students and staff at school.

• 1. Scheduling Committee report:

     • Met in winter/spring of 2013.

     • Set up to investigate different scheduling options.

     • Consisted of community, staff, administration, and students.

     • Main goals: to improve conflicts that cause loss of class time, student stress, exclusivity of Council, lack of a lunch period, and maintain student freedom.

     • Spent time gathering data, sending out surveys, exploring different models, and creating templates.

     • Last meeting date: 6/23/13.

     • Staff has not seen plan T(w).

  2. Plan M:

     • Might help us talk about other possible plans.

     • Would provide long break on Wednesday with 5 minutes less of class time.

     • Council would be shortened by 5 minutes.

     • Not mutually exclusive with plan T(w).

• • Motion to implement Plan M.

  • Overall will be helpful to not have students miss a full class period every week.

  • Accessibility of Council is great.

  • The missing 5 minutes can add up quickly.

  • We discourage long periods of time where students are free.

  • Many teachers may schedule their x-periods on Wednesdays now

    • (Administration tells the teachers when they are and aren’t allowed to have x-periods).

  • Having Council take place during activity period may help us find a more accessible space to meet.

  • Might solve the problem of tardiness to Council after activity period on Wednesdays

  • Always will be some issues surrounding time.

Meeting adjourns.